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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 6: Rainwater as a Subject

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German & Latin

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Derowegen der gemeinen Alchymisten und Sophisten gantze Kunst / in specie aber ihre putrefaction, Tödt- und Zunichtmachung des Goldes / anders nichts ist / weder daß sie dasselbe dergestalt zu nicht machen / und der jenige / dem sie es auß der Truhen / und dem Beutel geschwätzt / sein Lebtag nichts mehr davon sihet: Inmassen abermahl die Erfahrung / und zwar vorlängst auch öffters bezeuget hat / und es also mit diesen Leuthen / hierinn falls recht / auch sonsten fast heisset / wie der Author des eröffneten Philosophischen Vatterhertzen spricht: GOtt der HErr hat auß nichts alles erschaffen / so machen die gemeine Alchymisten auß allem nichts.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 6: Rainwater as a Subject

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Thus the entire art of common alchemists and sophists, especially their putrefaction, killing and annihilation of gold, amounts to nothing more than making it disappear so thoroughly that the person whose chest and purse they talked it out of never sees any of it again. Experience has long and repeatedly testified to this. Of these people, here and almost everywhere else, the author of the Opened Philosophical Father’s Heart rightly says: “God the Lord created everything from nothing; common alchemists make nothing from everything.”

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About This Reading Edition

An anonymous Hermetic treatise of 1680, presented in its original German and Latin with a new English translation, 279 explanatory notes, the historical phoenix frontispiece, an introduction, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and original registers.

Historical Text and Translation

Anonymous, Candida Phoenix philosophica. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Hermsdorff, 1680. The chosen witness is the Wellcome Library copy digitized as b32993456; German and Latin, with French, Greek, and Hebrew passages retained.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The 1680 source is identified as public domain by the Wellcome/Internet Archive record. The supplied 2026 transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. The frontispiece is retained from the supplied edition and credited to its historical witness.